The Electric Company"The Wordball Is My Oyster"
Lisa gets a case of stage fright when she's cast as the lead in Hector's play. Can Lisa overcome her fears in time to save the play, or will she have to give her part to Annie?. D

5:30 pm

Nightly Business Report
A repeated warning to Washington: if the U.S. goes over the fiscal cliff, it would push the economy into a recession. Europe delivers a downbeat economic outlook for the next year and China prepares to anoint a new leader. D

Doc Martin"The Apple Doesn't Fall (S3 E3)"
Martin examines the town's new police officer, PC Joseph Penhale, who appears to have an affliction that causes him to fall asleep at strange times. Village plumber Bert Large is having a midlife crisis.G

8:00 pm

Outdoor Idaho"Palisades By Season"
Experience the seasons in eastern Idaho's Palisades on the South Fork of the Snake River near the Wyoming border. With a reservoir, prize river fishing spots and more than 400,000 acres of wildlands in the region, each season brings a new attraction. Cameras follow biologists and nesting eagles, fishing enthusiasts, a huckleberry gatherer, and winter wildlife watchers.G

8:30 pm

Saving The Ocean"The Sacred Island"
Host Carl Safina is on the island of Pemba, part of the Zanzibar chain off the east African coast. The island's reefs and lagoons, once threatened by resort development, are now managed by, and for, the local villages' fishermen. Safina fishes with them and learns about their traditions of stewardship of the world and its resources.G

9:00 pm

Midsomer Murders"Garden of Death, Part 1"
The Inkpen family buys back its ancestral home, Inkpen Manor at Midsomer Deverell, with plans to turn a village Memorial Garden on the land into a tea shop. The family who previously owned the manor and installed the garden leads the opposition to the changes. When the eldest Inkpen granddaughter is found dead in the garden with her skull smashed in, DCI Tom Barnaby and DI Gavin Troy find more than one possible suspect. Part 1 of 2G

10:00 pm

Billy Connolly's Route 66
Billy checks out The Gateway Arch in St. Louis as he continues west where he runs across a Civil War re-enactment, a wolf sanctuary, and a crossbow turkey hunt. In Oklahoma's capital city, he visits the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial. Part 2 of 4G